Atlanta a City of the Modern South (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Georgia, Writers´ Program;) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Atlanta a City of the Modern South In the minds of many American citizens, tradition is the very essence of the South. They expect to find it both as a grace and a disaster, sometimes flowering as fine living and exquisite manners, sometimes wrapped like a vine about an entire community and strangling all the best energies of progress. This picture takes into account only two aspects: on the one hand magnolias, black mammies, fried chicken, and beautiful belles; on the other cornbread with fat-back and lackadaisical farmers. To both these preconceptions Atlanta is its own best refutation. At first sight the tourist may see no tradition at all. All the bustle and clamor of this ever-changing city seem to take no account of the past, to make no terms with anything but modern ways and rapid production. This city of big stores, of smoking factories, of handsome modern residences, is truly a city of the modern South. Yet the reader must not be misled by the subtitle of this book. Young as it is, Atlanta has a most dynamic history, swift, exciting, sometimes turbulent. In assembling the vital facts, the Georgia Writers´ Project consulted many written records and interviewed many people. The written sources were helpful. The research workers of the project pored over everything from old newspaper files to Walter G. Cooper´s The Official History of Fulton County. The interviewing of people was more difficult - and more fascinating. In a city as young as Atlanta it was sometimes possible to find older citizens who remembered back to the exciting days of Reconstruction, and occasionally these men and women would recall comments of their parents that threw light on the very beginnings of Atlanta. The books and papers gave necessary facts; the people interviewed gave an atmosphere fresh from actual experience. They did not always remember exact dates, but by such remarks as "We children weren´t allowed to play on that street," or "You didn´t have to take a chaperon if there were two couples in the surrey" they imparted a living quality to their reminiscences of Atlanta´s history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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